As the leader of the black cavalry roared, the stone gate quickly collapsed, along with him turning into ashes.
Then, a wisp of dark blood vitality flew into the valley.
Soon after, a gust of smoke condensed into the shape of a human, who opened his mouth and swallowed the wisp of blood vitality.
"Damn it! This must be the real guardian of the valley!" Everyone's face became serious as they witnessed this scene.
"Darren, we're going to depend on you…"
"That's right! Your battle beast is very powerful. I think that you'll be able to handle this easily too!"
At that moment, Darren looked at the black shadow that condensed in the valley. Its eyes suddenly lit up, emitting pure white light.
Darren's body trembled upon looking straight into its eyes. The black shadow's gaze made his soul so frightened that he was almost petrified.
"That thing is so powerful! I can sense it!" Darren eventually lowered his head and asked his battle beast, "Turtle, can we really defeat that thing?"
The old turtle just raised his head and looked at Darren contemptuously, as if he was in disbelief that Darren needed to ask such kind of thing.
Seeing the expression in the eyes of the old turtle, Darren felt somehow relieved. He realized that even his battle beast was confident enough in his own power.
Meanwhile, the black shadow below had completely condensed into its human form. The creature wore a black armor and carried a heavy blade in its hand.
Swoosh!
All of a sudden, its body flickered, making its movements very difficult to track.
"What incredible speed!"
"Watch out! The creature is already taking action!"
The black shadow raised its heavy blade and hurled a slash towards them. They saw a huge faint yellow blade radiance rapidly approaching.
'What is this? There's no blade intent?'
Darren was surprised and confused that he couldn't feel any blade intent from the blade radiance, but it was still a fact that it was undoubtedly powerful. In fact, it was much more powerful than the attack of the leader of the black cavalry.
"Infinite Defense Skill!"
Darren wasted no time and ordered the old turtle to activate his defensive skill.
However, this defensive skill was still as embarrassing as ever. The old turtle split up into large groups of lame old turtles, and they began to hop and dance around.
At the same time, the falling turtle shells formed into a huge one, enveloping the battle beasts on Darren's side.
Boom!
The overwhelming blade radiance hit the giant turtle shell, and the god's power spread in all directions.
"Yes! It withstood the attack!"
The young talents felt pretty confident upon seeing that the blade radiance was broken, while they were completely unharmed.
Crack!
However, just after a few seconds, the huge turtle shell around them began to crack like a fragile glass.
Crash!
Then, the entire turtle shell was crushed into ashes.
"Argh!"
The human talents riding the battle beasts spat out blood one after another. Even Darren felt that his internal organs were smashed into pieces.
Only then did they realize that something went terribly wrong. They had underestimated their enemy, and because of that, they almost died.
"Run! We can't possibly fight that thing head-on!" one of them shouted.
The rest of the people riding on their battle beasts started retreating quickly and disappeared into the void in just the blink of an eye. They clearly knew that once they experienced that same attack, they would surely die.
Darren was dumbfounded at his situation. How was he going to run away now?
The others had done the right thing of escaping quickly, but he was left with the old turtle, which was extremely slow to move.
Furthermore, the old turtle was frightened by the intensity of the enemy. His previous confidence was nowhere to be found and his neck and three legs shrunk into his turtle shell.
"Hey, dear turtle! It's not the time for you to be a coward!" Sally stomped her feet as she convinced the turtle to come out.
"What are you doing? Come out!" Finley put his head in front of the shell hole on the old turtle's neck and shouted at him, but he got no response.
"Oh no, what are we going to do?" Beatty asked with a worried face.
"What else? We should start running before we die here!" Darren kicked the back of the turtle and quickly leaped into the air. At the same time, Finley, Lindsay, Sally, and Beatty also followed him.
Swoosh!
However, just as they started flying in the air, a gust of cold wind swept past Darren's ears, making his hair stand on end.
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